Black Honeyeaters in the ACT

[Damien Farine <>]

For what it's worth, I think Black Honeyeaters have been much more regularly observed in the past few years than what these records show. Milburn and I have observed them every summer in Mulligans'/Goorooyaroo. From memory others have observed them there as well.

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:03:59 +1100
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Black Honeyeaters in Holt

There are only 22 records in the COG database, with the closest to Higgins being 3 records from West Macgregor in 2009.

 

Steve

RAOUName	NbrObserved	SightingNotes	ObservationDate	Location	GridNbr	State	BreedingCode
Black Honeyeater	2	Male and female	05-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat NE(M10)	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1	A female preening in a dead mistletoe and occasionally sallying after insects. Watched for 10 minutes	05-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat NE(M10)	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2		05-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2		09-Dec-06	Eastern Mulligans Flat Reserve	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1		09-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1		09-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2		10-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2		10-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2	2 males	17-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat NE(M10)	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater	4	3 males, 1 female together in one small area, some chasing between males	26-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat SE(M11)	M11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2		29-Dec-06	Mulligans Flat NR	M11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1		30-Dec-06	TSR 48, between Gundaroo and Belmount Forest	O05	NSW
Black Honeyeater	2	Male and female	01-Jan-07	Mulligans Flat NE(M10)	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater	2	males	03-Jan-07	Mulligans Flat SE(M11)	M11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1		04-Jan-07	Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve - Gungahlin - ACT	L11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1	Male	14-Jan-07	Mulligans Flat NE(M10)	M10	ACT
Black Honeyeater			04-Oct-07	Howarths Crossing	K01	NSW
Black Honeyeater	1		26-Oct-09	West MacGregor, ACT	I11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1	male feeding in Paterson's Curse flowers along banks of Ginninderra Creek	27-Oct-09	West Macgregor (I11)	I11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1	presumably same individual as seen on 27/10	28-Oct-09	West Macgregor (I11)	I11	ACT
Black Honeyeater	1		23-Jan-10	Birchmans Estate, Wamboin	P12	NSW
Black Honeyeater	1		20-Dec-12	TSR 48(O05)	O05	NSW

 

From: John Brannan [
Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2013 1:40 PM
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A friend of mine (Alison Milton) who lives in Holt sent me the following message yesterday afternoon:

Hi  John,

I thought you might be interested that I just spotted a pair of black honeyeaters in my almond tree. According to COG they are rare vagrants in Canberra.
Photos attached. (I edited the original images to reduce their size.)
John Brannan